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The obvious ones are still there...old school French fellas, Mat and Richard. They seem to still hold court now and again.

I think the Kitehouse (Chris and Johannes) boys still have the pairs tricking locked in (see vidoe titled 'mock2'). However, I haven't seen them fly in a few years.

I'd like to respectfully offer two: Piero (UK), and Chris (UK; that young fella that flies Furies all the time).

These two guys were the last two pilots to make me really roll my eyes in disgust. The jumping taz machine made several appearances, as did some ridiculous cynique variations on the Cosmic. I mean, Piero is the undisputed heavy weight champ of VF. That has to count for something.

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while only having seen a few excellent flyers in person, I've thoroughly enjoyed watching Paul de Bakker fly for a couple of occasions. Great guy and has a certain amount of grace in his style that inspires me.

I kinda think a guy from down under that goes by Shannon would be my choice for a young Gun.....T Patter is some where in the middle, age wise, but his smoothness is beginning to make up for all that, IMO. Such a subjective choice, really .............one cannot fairly compare apples and oranges, plus you have to add in the old and new skool variances.............It's an impossible comparison plus flying conditions have to be equalized......therefore VF is out.................the only fair competitition would be all the front runners in the same place at the same time........sort of a fly til you die sequence...............My choice off the top of my head under these cumsatances would be the Fearless ONE flying a Transformer SUL Vent.

I guess you'd have to rank them by their competition scores; their flying is so good you have to split hairs. So, of course, RonG and Will rank among the best. (How come we don't hear so much about the West Coast flyers? Are they on the forum?) And you can't deny the EU flyers. But, I have to say that I appreciate all the flying done to show the rest of us how to fly (Tim Benson and RandyG.)

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